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compensation to the peasant was ten times more than the profit earned from the annual legal exports of opium-but far less than the farmers could make on the illicit market. Moreover, poppy growing had been a way of life for centuries for 100,000 Turks, and neither the U.S. or Turkey was able to find a substitute crop for them to cultivate profitably. With no addiction problem in Turkey, the growers saw themselves as victims of an "American problem...
...gunpowder proof because the British found that whisky with about 50% alcohol, when mixed with gunpowder, would burn with a steady blue flame. Moonshining is not a thing of the past, either. As late as 1972, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms destroyed more than 2,000 illicit stills, and admits it barely scratched the surface of the trade...
...long ago, the illicit weekend tryst in the country often demanded more skill at the front desk than in the bedroom. Couples approaching a frowning innkeeper would go into contortions as they twisted school rings around to look like wedding bands and shuffled their suitcases to hide the fact that the initials did not match. But today door men do not wink, porters do not leer, and managers in even the starchiest establishments could not care less if a couple fails to sign in as Mr. and Mrs. - as long as they pay the double-room rate...
...convert their purloined material into a metal. Plutonium and U-235 can be transported as compounds that do not readily lend themselves to the making of the most efficient weapons, but the techniques for purification are, says Taylor, in some respects no more difficult than refining heroin in an illicit laboratory...
...death of his wife Martha in 1782, when Jefferson was only 39, he attempted or actually engaged in liaisons with several women, all of whom, as Brodie suggestively phrases it, were "in some sense forbidden." Appropriately, it was in Paris that Widower Thomas Jefferson, 42, enjoyed his flashiest illicit idyl. As a trade negotiator for George Washington, and later Benjamin Franklin's successor as Minister to France, the lanky Virginian fell in love with Maria Cosway, a capricious Englishwoman married to an obnoxious painter and court toady in London...